Counting of votes in the vice-presidential election began at 6 p.m. on Tuesday (September 9, 2025) after over 98% of MPs exercised their franchise in the contest between NDA nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan and joint opposition candidate B. Sudershan Reddy.
Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, 67, a veteran BJP leader and lifelong RSS swayamsevak, is poised to become India’s Vice-President making him the third Tamil Nadu-born leader to occupy the nation’s second-highest constitutional office. He follows in the footsteps of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1952–57) and R Venkataraman (1984–87), both of whom later rose to the presidency.
